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Hi Oblivion. There's two ways:

Method one: If you can (because it can be tricky for fast windows), hold down the Ctrl key while the window is opening and it will ignore the auto-closing (or other automatic action). Then you can middle-click the window's icon area and select "Opening state > Open how the Operating System determines" to remove the setting:



Method two: Click AlomWare Toolbox's "General" menu and then select "Saved window manager". You'll get the "Saved Window Manager" box, where you can select the saved window (such as "Settings" as shown below) and then press the Delete key to remove it:

[Win+I]

There's a lot of talk on Reddit by users who prefer the legacy Control Panel instead of the modern "Settings" app. With AlomWare Toolbox, you can make the system hotkey for Settings (Win+I) open the Control Panel when pressed, instead of it opening "Settings". Here's how.

First, we tell AlomWare Toolbox that we never want the "Settings" app to be opened (or shown):



Next, we tell AlomWare Toolbox to open the Control Panel once the "Settings" window has closed:



Done! Now, whenever you press the system hotkey of Win+I, you'll get the Control Panel instead.

Related: Did you know AlomWare Toolbox has direct links to most Control Panel items? See here: https://www.alomware.com/forum/index.php?topic=49.0

Won't make the $10 out of pocket problem evaporate, though.

True. But maybe this can be mitigated by the app doing an online activation check once a month for the first year after payment? After the year, the online checks can stop because PayPal doesn't refund after 180 days and the user has proven themselves to be honest. That sounds pretty good to me!

Already been doing that for a while. Banned codes are inside each update, so pirates can only use the version they illegally gained and not any later versions. But even that bothers me a lot, because they shouldn't be permitted to use it at all.

One idea I'm considering is to issue a temp one-year unlock code at the user's first purchase, then auto-issue the actual permanent one after that period. The buyer would be aware of and agreeing to this before purchasing. So if they get a refund from PayPal within that first year, their code only lasts for that time and then dies.

Not sure at the moment. I don't want to require online activation checks, but I can't see any other way. It costs me $10 in PayPal penalty fees when someone disputes their payment after getting their code, so they get the app for free and I have to refund their purchase + $10 penalty.

Lots of updates going on at the moment, as well as dealing with the issue of piracy.

A hotkey wouldn't work because it basically disables that key when pressed. So if Alt was done as a hotkey instead, then you wouldn't be able to press Alt to show the menu bar on a window (because the hotkey code "swallows" the keypress). At the moment it's done as a keyboard hook, which is why it lets you drag the window and also press it to see the menu bar. To support custom keys, I'd need to code it for every key on the keyboard, which I'm not going to do. Sorry!

Hi Graham. Yes, this is coming in the next update.

Question: How to get a macOS style "Quick Note" on Windows? (Hover mouse to the corner/side to open a note)

"I really love the Quick Note feature on macOS where you just move your mouse cursor to the bottom-right corner (or side) of the screen, and a quick scratchpad notes window pops up instantly. smth like that on windows?"

You can use this short action with AlomWare Toolbox to do so. Just run it, and whenever the mouse is put in the bottom-right corner of the desktop, the app opens to its "Notes" tab.

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HOW TO USE: Copy from Start to End, and then paste into an action.
REFERENCE : See an example of pasting at alomware.com/paste.png
0001 Wait: For the mouse to be "{=deskw$-1},{=deskh$-1}"
0002 Toolbox: Show the tab named "Notes"
0003 Wait: For the mouse to be "moved"
0004 Action: Go to start ""
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Explanation of the steps:

• Waits for the mouse to be at the desktop's width and height (minus 1 pixel for each).
• Opens AlomWare Toolbox's window and jumps to the "Notes" tab for you.
• Waits for the mouse to be moved anywhere, which in this case is off the bottom-right corner.
• Goes back to step 1 to wait for the mouse to be at the bottom-right corner again.

If you wanted the action to show the "Notes" tab when the mouse is at the right side of the screen, just edit step 1 to be this:

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0001 Wait: For the mouse to be "{=deskw$-1},#"
If you'd prefer a hotkey to show "Notes" instead, then you can use this single-step action (which has no mouse polling):

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HOW TO USE: Copy from Start to End, and then paste into an action.
REFERENCE : See an example of pasting at alomware.com/paste.png
0001 Toolbox: Show the tab named "Notes"
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Yes, it will.

For the next update: added a new automation step called "String: Create note", which creates a new note in the "Automation" tab with the text of the assigned string.

I don't think I can detect the currently open/active tab

Just added a "curtab$" variable for the next update, so you can know.

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It's just a plain-text area to save/edit quick searchable notes. Not really much to it, hence no mention on the home page. But maybe I should.  In the next update you'll be able to add notes from whatever text the string$ variable holds, which can be handy.

A very cool tip, Graham!

I totally forgot about action backups. I promise to do it soon. I don't want to do the add-to-note thing because that's more of a custom request and I prefer to avoid those. To find backed-up actions, I'll see what I can do.